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so s-l-o-w, what to do?
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Hi all, I'm a newbie to the forum... I could use some help.
I've had my Powerbook G4 for about 2 years now (I know a milloin years in computer time), and lately it's just gotten so slow. I have 256MB of RAM right now, and it's gotten me this far, do you think i need to get some more? I've got through all my files, and done a lot of purging. but no difference. if i were on a PC i'd run a defrag hopefully clearing some space. I ran MacWasher, a few weeks ago, but no change, i tried to run it again today, but it froze - froze!! i feel like i'm back in OS9 for a minute.
any advice you could pass along would be greatly appreciated thanks!
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Originally Posted by MrsLarry
I have 256MB of RAM right now, and it's gotten me this far, do you think i need to get some more?
Did stock PowerBooks in the past two years ever come with this little RAM? Maybe you have defective RAM?
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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you definitely need more ram. 512mb is the minimum now a days if you want decent performance. what kind of powerbook is it? 867mhz or 1ghz? you might wanna empty out your hd if it has less than a gb of space left, but if it has more than a gb...i doubt thats the culprit.
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If more RAM doesn't do the trick, I'd back-up (just in case) and do a clean reinstall.
That will keep all of your user data and reset your preferences and settings (but it throws the old ones in a labeled folder for safekeeping).
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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I double-checked 256MB RAM stock. I have 17GB available of 37.25 total on the HD., so I don't think that being "too full" is the problem.
Guess I'll look into another 512MB or so, that oughtta fix me up.
Thanks for the help!
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Originally Posted by MrsLarry
I double-checked 256MB RAM stock.
I just checked my Rev B PB and it too has 256 MB RAM built-in (stock config). I forgot that I had added 512 MB as soon as I had purchased the laptop. Doh!
You definitely need to add more RAM.
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